Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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 , furibus I)u4 So this is Tow nr IIoust ? we ask rhetori- cally. knowing very well thal it is . . . such wonderful details: the unquestionable pleas- ure of steak cooked over an open fire, our Little Illuc llca en. a smoke beneath the tree, and our Hospitality, our talent in pic - ture and word left for our successors, and that deep, sweet peace . . . To kind and generous friends we owe our complete grati- tude» for providing llu» senior class with this chance to express this gracious domesticity which is so becoming to us. The future Women ol the» World, scholars, we are. and career girls . . . artists, politicians, scientists . . . hut the skill we showed with a skillet, we wen» actualK distinguished at the» dishpan. We need not fear the roll call on the» moun- tain top. There is a talent prominent in the» class of 10. it is niarrv -able. » February 27 • I In three french pictures in the series, told in farce, the story of a cheat: the» well known tab of AMPHITRYON: and de- scribed the escape from a German wartime prison. The Spanish film told of the life be- low the» Rio Orande. KWIOK 1 SKK. the Swiss picture», studies a doctor's struggle to regain his own sanity, after a death due to his experimentation. LIKBKLKI is a talc of tragic love in old Vienna. e saw these with pleasure and enthusiasm, suffering and en- joying in so many languages that we fell we w ere the most cosmopolitan of cosinopolitans. W e really hope we understood as many as we thought we did. Foreign t('fairs 29

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The brass ring hours of the morning, in the smaller Merry- Go-Hound, Wilbur . . . And the greenest leaf of the laurel wreath to the seniors, who knew the best things always come last. What we had suspected in the atmosphere of Soph Hop, that Hash we had caught at Junior Prom, that intangible essence was ours that night. We have had it. we pass it on to '41. '7Via Lucky Tcllmc

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There were the days when work was what came in between week-ends. . . Senior dance w as no more than a dream of the night before when Sophomores began pressing evening gowns and seeing about a room for the Man. We seniors try to pretend that we need sleep. March 2 The class of 40 passed under an arch of skis into a winter wonderland for their Soph Hop, on February 19, two years ago. Anne Preston was chairman of the dance, and the Barbary Coast Orchestra from Dartmouth, supplied the music. Chapin was decorated w ith snow men, snow-glistening trees, and white balloons, to give a total effect of wintry beauty. Before the balcony was de- serted, goggling hoi-poloi bombarded the dancers with snow' and snowballs.” Poor jealous balconyites! Pegasus rode high on March 2nd, when the class of ‘42 celebrated en masse at Soph Hop. In honor of the occasion, Chapin audi- torium was decorated in true leap year spirit, with a figure of Pegasus pursuing her man. as the outstanding motif. Silhouettes in red, black and white, symbol- izing the old leap year custom, at various seasons of the year, were shown about the hall. Johnny Albert with his orches- tra was the man who made the music. Pat Sanford headed the com- mittee for the affair, and assist- ing her were Priscilla Cruik- shank. Jane Drury, Joy Sibley, Betty Anne Heimark, E. A. Hemingway. Milly Rowe, Ellie Williams and Barbara Behrc. The gowns we hear, were superb. The only way we poor upperclassmen could learn about the Creat Doings, was to pay the price, and gape from the balcony ... we tried, hut the nostalgic longing for youth sent us home to an early bed. We contented our- selves, by reading about our Little Sisters elegance in Spinach, in the next News. March 9 This year the Senior-Faculty Reception was held informally in Wilbur. From four to six, faculty guests, escorted by members of the senior class, were received, and enter- tained. Tea was served buffet style, and peo- ple w andered casually from group to group, or stayed at a table, and chatted with those who came to visit. 30